From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 1 20:51:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA16420 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 20:51:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts14-line15.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.181]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA16415 for ; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 20:51:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA00229; Thu, 1 Aug 1996 20:50:54 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 20:50:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: francis yeung cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 2.1R system : getty: /dev/ttyv0: Device not configured In-Reply-To: <199608011618.QAA02742@fyeung5.netific.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, francis yeung wrote: > > Greetings, > > I must overlook something here. > > I have just noticed that my 2.1R system reports that > > ~ > getty: /dev/ttyv0: Device not configured > getty: /dev/ttyv2: Device not configured > getty: /dev/ttyv1: Device not configured No, this means your virtual consoles don't exist. :( they're ttyV, not ttyD... If you can login, then su; cd /dev; ./MAKEDEV vty8. That should rebuild them. > But tip finds the devices OK. > > What did I miss here ? You should be using the cua devices (/dev/cuaa0, etc) for dialout. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major